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Music Stands on Stage

#221
Bottom line

If you need a music stand to reference music you perform on a regular basis with musicians with whom you are familiar it is a crutch. Plain and simple. If you could easily adapt to it not being present yet you need it, that is a crutch. That is the essence of my opinion on this topic. Where I live there are many bands who fit that criteria and look foolish doing it. Circumstances outside of that are up to your discretion and confidence in your own abilities. My $.02.
 
#222
PastorofMuppets said:
Bottom line

If you need a music stand to reference music you perform on a regular basis with musicians with whom you are familiar it is a crutch. Plain and simple. If you could easily adapt to it not being present yet you need it, that is a crutch. That is the essence of my opinion on this topic. Where I live there are many bands who fit that criteria and look foolish doing it. Circumstances outside of that are up to your discretion and confidence in your own abilities. My $.02.
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Be sure to tell that to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band when their tour comes through your town.


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#226
JumboJack said:
" Hi Debbie,It's Gina. OMG I have to tell you about last night. I went to this really cool dive/biker bar to get my drink and dance on. But WOW! The bass player in the band, he was SO entertaining. I watched him all night long. Best performance I have ever seen. Could not take my eyes off of him."

lol
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You see, I am different, I think that stuff actually happens.

As a matter of fact some younger blond women grabbed me last night after our 2nd break. Unfortunately I am at the point in life where that's not why I'm in this business.

And why anyone is grabbing a 59 year old is beyond me.

Blue

Last night:
 
#227
Given the arguments against stands, these "don't count" exceptions make no sense. Springsteen's teleprompters "don't count," iPads "don't count," Phil Lesh's music stands I suppose don't count.

If it doesn't count when bands put on a high-energy and polished show with some form of lead sheets or scores on stage, it's because the problem isn't music stands. I could see having legitimate problems with a music-stand-using bandmate who is an unprepared, unmusical, disengaged performer who keeps a sloppy stage. The thing is, he came that way; there's nothing about having scores or lead sheets on stage that necessarily correlates with any of those qualities, much less causes them. On stages of all sorts tonight, there are musicians putting on killing shows who are using teleprompters, laptops, iPads, and even music stands--just are there are bands stinking up the joint using those tools. (And just as certainly as there are other gigs on which musicians are either slaying or sucking w/o music stands of any kind.) The hammer's not to blame for the unskilled carpenter's swollen thumb.
 
#228
PastorofMuppets said:
I dont recall seeing one in front of bruce, other guitarists or rhythm section. :p
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Teleprompters don't count? ;) There's certainly plenty of photos of Bruce using the teleprompter floating around the net.

The only reason acts on the bar & club scene aren't doing that is because most of them can barely afford to employ a sound man, much less a lighting tech or monitor engineer. A teleprompter is well beyond the means of any band playing the club scene. Hence music stands with charts and now iPads....also on music stands.

And how anyone thinks that an iPad on a music stand is significantly different from a music stand with charts is beyond comprehension. It seems completely arbitrary.
 
#230
From reading all the replys, nobody is against music stands on stage totally, only in certain environments.

For those who want to use them that's fine.

I am just saying to me they look out of place if your playing rock covers in a small corner bar.

blue
 
#232
I guess that it really comes down to what you are doing.

Chamber music = a group of people sitting down staring at sheet music:
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The music stand is part of their "look". To me I find it totally boring and visually unexciting.

Rock Music - a group of people entertaining while playing their music:
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Which group would you rather watch?
Do you got out to "see" a show or just listen to the music?
 
#233
bassgod0dmw said:
Done. The videos that we have on our site are mainly taken from gigs, and the stands are visible in them. We have gigs every weekend in the best bars in the surrounding towns. Most of them are monthly frequency as well.

Oh, and I forgot my stand at home last night.
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So you go through all the trouble to set up and maintain a website, but you don't bother to memorize the lyrics to the songs you play or learn to play them without cliff notes?

Bravo.
 
#239
bluewine said:
Hi Munjibunga,

I must be a 59 year old kid then, I have never owned a music stand or tele-prompter and never used either and I'm still rockin.

And by the way the award winning artists you refer to as old, they will always be 27 years old to me.

blue

Off topic;

Based on many threads and comments from Tbers,I have to admit, this whole rock band thing is completely different for the younger generation then for guys like me. I kind of like living in my rock world, wouldn't want to trade places with anyone . I consider myself very lucky that I came of age in the mid 60's.
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Well, I'm 64 and, like you, have never used stands, teleprompters or cheat sheets. But those old farts are drug-addled. Cracks me up. You pay $100 to go see an act and they play 20 songs. What a gig.
 

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